ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2301, 5 January 1892, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Auckland, Jan. 1. The Mariposa from San Francisco arrived this morning. She landed at Apia the Hon. S. Ormsby and wife, late Governor of Vermont, and appointed Land Commissioner in lieu of the Hon. H. E. Ide, for the United States; also the Rev. J. Whitwness, missionary. The Mahinapua sailed at 11 o’clock in the forenoon with the southern portion of the San Francisco mail. GENERAL SUMMARY. Dr Russell, the war correspondent, who has been dangerously ill with an inflammatory attack, is cnovalescent and shortly proceeds with Mrs Russell to Egypt. A storm raged all along the French coast on December 7th. The Channel steamer Victoria was unable to make Calais. She hoisted signals of distress, and tugs went to her assisstance. The crews of several herring smacks were drowned. The gross value of Mr Parnell’s property was sworn in Loudon on December 10th at £11,864, and the net value £6152. Six persons were injured on December 3rd in a street torn up by an explosion of gas in Glasgow in the new underground railway under the stone cross. At the inaugural dinner of the shipping Exchange in London on December 3rd, toasts were proposed to the Qeen,u the Prince of Wales,- and the President of the United States. In proposing the last the chairaau said —“ We should love our dear cousins across the water, and should stand shoulder to shoulder and whip creation.” Mr Chamberlain forwarded the draft of the W orkmen’s Pension Bill to Mr Morley for submission to Mr Gladstone. The Government, after consutation with the law lords, have decided to introduce a Bill at the coming session

recasting the whole whole law of evidence, mainly with the object of allowing criminals to testify in their own behalf. At Heanor, Nottingham, a man strangled his wife and drowned himself in a cistern. No reason is given for the action.

At Millwall on December 9th three Prussian and four English sailors quarrelled. One Englishman was killed, one fatally injured, and another seriously cut.

The Queen has appointed Dr Cresser organist of a leading Parisn church, to be organist of the Chapel Royal in the St James’ Palace and composer to her majesty, to succeed Mr Jekyel, who retires in ill health after 16 years’ service

Some pure-bred Western buffaloes (bison) arrived in England from America, and their future home is to be in the park at Heggerstone Castle, Northumberland. It cost £IOOO to buy the animals and transport them across the At antic. C. B. Taylor, a noted Liverpool merchant, committed suicide. Financial losses caused his mental derangement.

A fatal explosion occurred in Newmarket, Blackburn, 30 miles from Manchester, by which 3 buildings were demolished and 20 persons killed. There were many persons injured. Before the police could make a thorough search for the dead, the ruins were in flames and approach was impossible. The dead in the ruins were burnt beyond recognition. The cause of the disaster was an explosion of gas. A man who had charge of the gasometer was arrested and subsequently released on bail. A searching party had found nine bodies in the ruins. On December Ist, two Englishmen, John Cooper and Walter Rundell, were arrested at St Etienne for attempting by bribery to procure a specimen of the new Russian rifle. Cooper admitted that he was trying to obtain a knowledge of the construction of the rifle for a firm of manufacturers at Birmingham, but Rundell stoutey denied any such intention.

The Parisians give eager credence to a recent rumour that the Emperor of Germany was insane. A gentleman named Victor, German, shot and killed himself in the neighbourhood of Milan, after the loss of every farthing he possessed at Monte Carlo gambling tables. The Italians are rejoicing at the abundant harvests.

Large quantities of mourning goods are being imported into Poland, as 1892 is the cenntenial of the loss of her independence, and the women are preparin to wear black for 365 days. Prince Theodore, son of the late King John of Abyssinia, who was brought to Europe to be educated, was sentenced to a week’s imprisonment in Brussels for being concerned in a street row. The census of the Russian Navy made on December shows a total of 192 vessels of all kinds.

Thieves entered the Government Treasury at Vadlivostock on December Bth and got clear off with 250,000 dollars. Italy proposes to hold an ItalianAmerican exposition at Genoa in 1892, to celebrate the fourth centenary of the discovery of America by Columbus. Russian grain dealers in the provinces have been detected in mixing fine earth, or kaolin, with the flour they sell to the starving peasants, and have been sentenced to a week’s imprisonment. The Czar has positively refused to receive a deputation of noblemen who desired to present an address asking him to grant a Constitution to Russia. AMERICAN SUMMARY.

The man who attempted to assassinate Russell Sage, the millionaire, and was killed, has not been identified. So far all inquiries and tjie closest search have failed t° reveal the name of the dynamiter. All that was left of him is his head, and that has not yet been recognised or identified by the police. The natives, as well as the American colonists, in the Hawaiian Islands flout the proposition of annexation to the United States, and also that of English control. The general idea of the people is to remain independent,

The Countess of Aberdeen has advanced a novel idea of bringing a number of girls from Ireland, placing them in charge of the convent in Chicago, and have them make Irish lace and do needlework for exhibition at the Colombia Exhibition. The Sisters at the. Convent and the Bislpp of Chicago approve of idea.

Polo Alto, a famous stallion in exGovernor Stamford’s stable, broke the stallion trotting record, on Nov. IT, by trotting a mile in 2min Sfsec, on a kiteshaped track at Stockton, California. In view of the increase of leprosy in the United States. Supervising SurgeonGeneral Wyman has recommended the establishment of national lazarettea. COLONIAL GOLD. The steamship Mariposa, which arrived at San Francisco on Nov. 26, brought from the Australian Colonies nearly three million dollars worth of sovereigns, and next day the bulk of this large amount was received at the United States Branch Mint in Fifth Street, where it was recoined in American twenty-dollar pieces, and will go into circulation here. Technically speaking, the sovereigns are “to pay exchange on London.” The wheat exports from California this year will exceed 700,000 quarters. The wheat will be landed in England, and will be paid for in drafts on the Australian banks. This obviates the shipment back and forth of bullion. Until this year the import of sovereigns or other treasure from the Colonies has never exceeded 300,000d015. The volume of business has been gradually increasing, however, and will be maintained.